SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles

Podcast: This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello

Opublikowano: 2026-09-20

Roberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav join TWiV at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Virology to discuss how the absence of measles virus receptors in the brain selects for hyperfusogenic variants that spread neuron-to-neuron and cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare but fatal long-term neurological sequela of measles infection. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Roberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV How measles virus adapts to the brain (Ann Rev Virol) Measles virus...